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the

initial

stimulusliptikl

was

born

of

need.

Tim

(a

guitarist,

artist

and

amateur

songwriter)

was

always

saying<

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o>Pete

how

difficult

he

found

it

to

write

>lyricsp>for

his

son

gs.

Like

many

songwriters,

he

>found

cr

eating

melod

ies

or

a

rrangements

easier

than

p>writing

lyrics

.

He

couldp>have

gone>out

to

try

to

find

ap>lyricist

to

work

with,

but

he

could

just

never

get

around

to

it.<

/p>The

mainly

th

esaur

us

or

rhymingp>style

software

tools

he

had

>come

across>just

did<

/p>not

work

for

him,

eit

her.

He

needed

more

fu

nda

mental

help:

tools

for

genera

ti

ng

lyric

ideas!the

birth

ofp

>liptiklNo

doubt

bored

>by

Tim'

s

poor

lyric-writing

efforts

and>his

incessant

wittering

on<

/p>about

how

it

mus

t

be

possible<

/p

>to

do

something

in

software,

Pete

one

day

said:

p>“Tim,

you

do

realisep>that

we

could

create

a<

/p>generative

tool

to

help

you

do

that?”.

That

was

the

defining

moment.

We

talked

about>what

>we

would

want

it

to

do,

di

d

somep>quick<

/p>s

earches

and

found

nothing

out

there

quite<

/p>likep>

what

we

were

thinking.

Necessity

being

the

mother>of

>

invention,

we

got

to

work

on

it.

After

a

furiou

sp

>p>round

of

prototyping

and

experimentation,

we

felt

wep>wer

e

on

to

something!how

it

got

its

na

meHaving

s

tarted

to>build

the

product,

we

really

>needed

to>name

it!>We

k

new

the

kind

of

qualities

we

wan

ted

it

to

have

and>came

up

>with

“elliptical”

->it

just

popped>into

our

hea

ds.

We

were

tickled>by

this

as

it

ha

d

a

bit

of

word

play

in

it

“lip

tickle”,

and

coul

d

be<

/p>married

withp>some

ne

at

imagery.

We

liked

its

>quirkiness,

too,

and

ke

pt>thinking

that

“tickling

lips”

was

a

way

of

stimulating

words

and

utterances,

>and

teas

ing

new

prose

into

e

xistence!<

/p>So,

there

p>you

have

it,

we

decided

on

the

product

nam

e

“liptikl”

for

a

ly

ric

generator

thatp>delivers

unusual,<

/p>ob

scure,

non-obvious,

amb

iguous

and

un

expected

(and<

/p>hopefully

goo

d!)

results.